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Public, Private or Non-Profit? How to Boost a Development Career

By Stella Ngumuta on 04 February 2010

Many young professionals eager to pursue a career in international development struggle with deciding whether to enter the private, public or non-profit sector. Expectations and required skill sets differ.

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Stella Ngumuta
Stella Ngumuta holds a Bachelor of Law from the University of Nairobi and a master's in law and diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Boston. She has worked in the private and public sectors in Kenya, Somalia and Sierra Leone. Stella became a Devex fellow in June 2007 and after a stint in Washington, D.C., relocated to Nairobi, where she eventually became associate protection officer at the HIAS Refugee Trust of Kenya in Nairobi. She is fluent in English and Swahili, and speaks basic French.

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